This is Not What I Ordered
- Full Length Play, Comedy, Contemporary
- 4M, 4F
- ISBN: 9780573623394
Ever walked into a restaurant and seen an attractive couple in the back talking excitedly, their hands gesturing wildly, their expressions changing swiftly from joy to sadness and back again?
Description
- Full Length Play
- Comedy
- 90 minutes
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Cautions: Strong Language
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
REVIEWS:
"Mines the bottomless pit of male-female partnering."
Los Angeles Weekly
"A startled deer in an SUV's headlights has nothing on these love-phobic characters. In the sure hands of a relationship-savvy playwright, an evening of charm and humor is bound to follow."
Backstage West
Characters
- Casting: 4M, 4F
- Casting Attributes: Roles for Multicultural Casting, Flexible casting, Expandable casting
MAN - 30-35, play LARRY, TOM. Character guy. Deeply insecure with women. He’s been burned many times, but he can’t keep himself from trying again.
MAN - 30-35, plays ALAN, STUART. Character guy. Also deeply insecure, but he goes in the other direction with it, feeling more resentful and suspicious of women, blaming them, not himself.
MAN - 42, plays DOUG, SAM, BRUCE. An idealist who has tried his best to live up to his ideals. He hasn’t done badly either, except he doesn’t really know what he believes in anymore.
WOMAN - 25, plays MELANIE, WAITRESS [CW]. She is an independent sort of girl. Does her best to cover up her vulnerability, but it’s there. Pretty without being a knockout, she’s aware that the odds are often against her. Feisty. Funny without trying to be.
WOMAN - 35, plays LINDA. Independent, but age is creeping up on her (or so she thinks). Getting a bit desperate for that right guy to come along. She’s got a real inner beauty, a poetic quality that guys seem not to know what to do with. (Can also be WAITRESS [CW]).
WOMAN - 37, plays JOAN, ALISON. An attractive woman who sabotages herself at every turn, big time. This is close to a farcical character, a woman who just can’t help laying traps for herself. It would be terribly sad if it wasn’t so funny.
WOMAN - 40, plays MEGAN, WAITRESS [WR]. Attractive, perhaps even a beauty, but not so guys seem really to notice anymore. She believed in many things once, had her share of adventures, but now her life has settled into an all too-placid routine.
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Ever walked into a restaurant and seen an attractive couple in the back talking excitedly, their hands gesturing wildly, their expressions changing swiftly from joy to sadness and back again? Ever wondered what they were saying? Well, we have no clue about that, but if you want a really funny and touching play about men and women in restaurants and bars looking for love and finding much more than they bargained for, then check out This is Not What I Ordered. |
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